Lap 9, Nico Rosberg has pulled out a 5.5 second gap to Max Verstappen in 2nd. Lap 10, Fernando Alonso pits for the Hard tyre and is the first car to do so. Lap 11, Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo, Romain Grosjean pit for the Hard tyre. Lap 13, Rosberg, Sebastian Vettel, Sergio Perez and Kimi Raikkonen pit for the Hard tyre. Lap 14, Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz pit for the Hard tyre and Hamilton in front of Raikkonen, who has just overtaken Perez and Jolyon Palmer into turn 1. Lap 16, Hamilton overtakes Valterri Bottas into turn 15 and up into 4th place as Raikkonen overtakes Felipe Massa into turn 1 and up into 7th place. Bottas is falling pretty quickly as he is overtaken by Ricciardo, Raikkonen and Perez.

Lap 26, Jolyon Palmer and Kevin Magnussen pit for Renault and they take on the Hard and the Medium tyre. Lap 27, Kimi Raikkonen pits for the Hard tyre. Lap 29, Max Verstappen pits for the 2nd and final time onto a new set of Hard tyres. Lap 30, Nico Rosberg and Sergio Perez pit for the Hard and Medium tyres. Lap 33, Daniel Ricciardo pits and goes onto the Hard tyre with Lewis Hamilton pitting the next lap and going onto the Hard tyre as well. Lap 35, Sebastian Vettel pits and goes onto the Soft tyre. He appears behind Hamilton but in front of team-mate Raikkonen.

After the second round of pit stops, Nico Rosberg leads ahead of Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo, Sergio Perez, Nico Hulkenberg, Felipe Massa and Valterri Bottas round out the top 10 at the moment. After a strong qualifying, Haas’s Romain Grosjean is just outside the points in 11th. Verstappen is coming under pressure from Hamilton on lap 46 as the gap is only 1 second. Lap 52, Hamilton closes into the final chicane and moves to the inside of the corner. Verstappen, as late as he wants, moves to block the inside forcing Hamilton to completely miss the chicane. Lap 53, Nico Rosberg wins ahead of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.